décolleté
English
Alternative forms
- decollete
- décolletée (in feminine forms)
Etymology
Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
Adjective
décolleté (comparative more décolleté, superlative most décolleté)
- Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
- "She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."
Related terms
Translations
1. Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage
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French
Etymology
Past participle of décolleter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.kɔl.te/
Adjective
décolleté (feminine décolletée, masculine plural décolletés, feminine plural décolletées)
- low-cut (dress, etc.)
- decapitated
Descendants
Further reading
- “décolleté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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